单词 | to cry creak |
释义 | > as lemmasto cry creak ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > confess oneself beaten to cry creak?1562 to give, lay down, yield the bucklers1592 to cry cravena1634 holler1845 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in benda1400 sink?a1513 to give over1530 to cry creak?1562 yield1576 to hold up1596 succumb1604 to give in1616 to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629 to cry cravena1634 to give up or cross the cudgels1654 incumb1656 to fall in1667 to knock under1670 to knock under board, under (the) table1692 to strike underc1730 knuckle down1735 to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860 chuck up (the sponge)1864 to throw in one's hand1893 to sky the wipe (or towel)1907 to drop one's bundle1915 to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915 to buckle up1927 ?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iii I woulde make the knaues to crye creke. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I When the prefixed daie [for the combat] approched neere, Vescy..beganne to crye creake, and secretely sayled into Fraunce. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42v When tilth plows breake, poore cattle cries creake. 1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue i, in Poems (1870) 37 I now cry creake that ere I scorned loue. 1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 164 This Crauen Cocke, after..crowing a Conquest, being ready presently to Cry Creake. < as lemmas |
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